By Dare Babarinsa
Finally, Robert Mugabe is separated from power. One impertinent
journalist was said to have once asked the perennial president: “Mr Mugabe,
when are you going to say bye-bye to the people of Zimbabwe?”
He replied: “Where are they going?”
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| *Robert and Grace Mugabe |
Finally the people of Zimbabwe, who once regarded him as
the ultimate hero, left him. It took a non-coup by the Zimbabwean military and
the nudging of South Africa
to convince Mugabe that the game has ended and it was time for the big
masquerade to return to Igbale, the portal of the dead. What years of
diplomatic isolation and protests by fractious opposition could not achieve,
Grace, Mugabe’s graceless dragon-queen achieved. She wanted a dynasty and
sought the hero to make her the queen after his long reign must have ended. She
worked hard to change the tide of history using the old weapon of bottom-power
to her advantage. She failed.
